Jacques Vanderdreschd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; Monday, July 07, 2003 11:16 AM):
> 1) Can analog assist in finding the geographical location of a host computer > listed in the Host Report? The Domain Report can tell you which TLD the hosts accessing your site are resolved to (e.g. .uk, .jp, .de). This may or may not be the same as the country the computer is located in (especially for .com). > 2) If so, is this called 'geocoding'? What you may be thinking of is often referred to as geo-targeting or geo-locating. There have been numerous discussions of the value of it on this list, but no real consensus. Try searching in the list archive (see the link at the bottom of this email) for 'geo-targeting'. Analog does not currently do this but some patches and methods for achieving it have been offered. > 3) Is 'geocoding' an art, a science, or both? All of the above and a bit of smoke and mirrors. One of the main problems is that the data can be specious. Often the geo-targeting data is seeded from WHOIS records, which just list a billing address for the IP owners. -- Jeremy Wadsack Wadsack-Allen Digital Group +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
